An interesting study was released a while back from West Virginia University is getting some play on CNN today. The study followed over 100 people and looked at how regular coping mechanisms worked compared to using meditation and mindfulness to combat stress.
An intensive program that teaches meditation skills may help people reduce the psychological and physical effects of high stress, according to a new study.
Kimberly A. Williams, Ph.D., at West Virginia University in Morgantown, and her colleagues assessed the benefits of the program that taught participants to “discern a relaxed from tense body and come to understand experientially how mental and emotional states influence the body and vice versa.”
They recruited 62 “stressed-out” subjects from the community. Past studies of similar training programs have shown the benefits in patients with confirmed psychiatric diagnoses and/or chronic illness. This is the first study to examine the benefits of such a program within a community setting, in people who reported abnormally high stress but not at a level that constitutes a psychiatric disorder. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Alternative Medicine, CNN, Kimberly A. Williams, meditation, Morgantown, Prevention Research Center, psychiatric disorder, the American Journal, West Virginia University
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